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* During the course of titular character's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] in ''[[The Abominable Dr. Phibes]]'', Phibes kills one of his victims by crushing his skull to paste with a vice hidden in a paper-mache mask.
** ''Phibes'', its sequel ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again'', and the very similar ''[[Theatre of Blood]]'' are alllll about this trope.
* The dance scene at the opening of ''[[Ghost Ship (2002 film)||Ghost Ship]]''. That entire crowd all killed by one wire slicing through them all?! OUCH!!!
* What happens to Captain Amazing in ''[[Mystery Men]]'' is nothing less than fearsome. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|pointed out in the film]] that the weapon that kills him is fueled by [[Nightmare Fuel]].
** It was pretty unrealistic, but unexpected in a PG-13 rated movie.
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*** ''[[Enemy Mine (film)|Enemy Mine]]'' has a similar, PG-rated death, and ''The [[Final Destination]]'' replaces the rock crusher with a disintegrating escalator for an extremely not-PG-rated death.
*** Honorable mention goes to Milton Krest, who is framed by Bond as a traitor to his boss (Franz Sanchez). He gets thrown into a decompression chamber and experiences [[Your Head Asplode]].
** In ''[[
** In ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', a mook falls into a newspaper press, and the main villain is skewered by a drill missile.
** In ''[[Die Another Day]]'', villain Gustav Graves is electrocuted before getting sucked by an airplane jet.
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*** They didn't get ripped out of their chest, they ''[[It Got Worse|exploded]]'' [[Nausea Fuel|out of their chest]], thank you very much.
** It doesn't actually happen, but in the short story "Love Hurts", a Red Court vampire describes to Harry the death her Court has planned for him. It involves a cage lined with sharp objects, the bottom of which is a closed bowl to collect his waste, spears in a rack underneath so anyone who feels like it can prod him with them, and eventual disembowelment and flaying to be turned into a chair in the Red Temple.
* In the first book of the [[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]] Sequence, ''The Lies of Locke Lamora'', a mob leader tries to have Locke drowned in a barrel of horse urine.
** There are many of these in the first book alone. For instance, Capa Barsavi knows that someone's killing the leaders of the gangs under his watch, and so keeps bringing the survivors of said gangs in for "questioning." When he's done with them, he either throws them to the sharks or lets his [[Torture Technician]] go to town. One such death involves taking a leather bag, filling it with broken glass, slipping it over the poor bastard's head, and ''kneading''.
** An even worse death is described in the sequel, ''Red Seas Under Red Skies''. An assassination attempt on crime boss Requin left Requin's lover, Selendri, [[Two-Faced|horribly disfigured on her left side]]. When Requin caught the assassin, he dipped his left side in cement, let it harden, then left him like that, forcing water down his throat to keep him going as long as possible, while the trapped side rotted and became gangrenous...
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* ''[[GURPS]]: Ultratech'' has a weapon that releases nanites into your blood. After a few minutes your blood ''explodes''.
* A Blood Magic spell in a ''[[Rifts]]'' supplemental is called ''Carnivorous Blood''. Your imagination can handle the rest...
* Half the stuff that can kill you in ''[[Warhammer
** Of special note is the Orks' Shokk Attack Gun, which teleports a tiny goblin though hell, driving it psychotically insane, and causing it to reappear ''inside'' you, at which point it rips you apart from within.
* ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' has several extremely horrifying deaths for the very unfortunate humans that run foul of its supernatural denizens. Certain vampires can restrain a human while eating his flesh, then wear it as a cloak to protect from sunlight. Abyssal entities can do all sorts of unpleasant things to people. The grand prize, however, has to go to the Shartha, or the hosts, who can possess humans by getting into their bodies and slowly eating their hearts or brains.
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Shogun: Impaled through the crotch by a spiked roof fixture.
Yokozuna: Used for fireworks.
The Shamans: Chained to Jack's bike and [[What a Drag|dragged along the ground]].
Frank: Killed by his own hand cranked electric chair.
Elise: ''Spanked'' to death.
Kojack: Exploded by his own bike.
The Masters: One is impaled by Jack and forced to use his powers to toss the other around, then they're thrown together and kind of explode.
Martin: Also exploded.
The Black Baron: Used for Man Darts. }}
* In ''[[Space Quest]] III'', getting shot by the pirates will trap you in a solid block of green jello. For not heeding your janitorial duties, [[Have a Nice Death|death]] by suffocation is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|just desserts]].
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* In ''[[Dead Rising]]'', after you defeat [[Monster Clown|Adam the clown]], he drops his still-running chainsaws and falls on them. He dies [[Laughing Mad|laughing like a maniac]] while blood is spraying everywhere.
** In ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'', Sullivan [[Just Between You and Me|attempts to justify the zombie outbreak Chuck was framed for.]] Given that Chuck lost his wife to the previous outbreak, he's not impressed. The following [[That One Boss|boss fight]] - where [[Guns Are Useless]] and ''[[No-Gear Level|Chuck can't use melee weapons]]'' - just make it easier to hate him. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os78TihE1Ws But Keiji Inafune makes up for all of this by several orders of magnitude].
{{quote|'''Sullivan''': (Deploys [[wikipedia:Fulton surface-to-air recovery system|skyhook]]) ''We're the good guys, Chuck. Not you.''
'''Chuck''': ([[Land Mine Goes Click|Handcuffs Go Click]])
'''Sullivan''': ('''[[Oh Crap]]! I'm handcuffed to the damn building!''')
'''Getaway Plane''': (snags skyhook)
'''Sullivan''': (Is '''[[Half the Man He Used To Be|torn in half]]'''.)
'''Player''': '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}cI89TD66CT8 CAN I GET A, HELL, YEAH!]''''' }}
** Unfortunately, programming limitations mean all we see is a massive spray of blood and the jerk's legs handcuffed to the roof. Meh. Still awesome.
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** The sequel isn't much better. We've got a guy getting the shit beaten out of him, crucified with exacto knives, ''his mouth stabled shut'', and finally being cut open with a box cutter, another guy getting his head beaten in with a sledgehammer, another character beaten stabbed, and electrified ''using her own blood'', a woman literally getting melted down into a human pizza, and finally the main character's best friend is strangled with wires. (which is, oddly enough, the ''tamest'' death)
* In one of ''[[Madou Souhei Kleinhasa]]'''s bad endings, Roze ends up literally being raped to death. [[Or So I Heard]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Naughty Bear]]'' has this as part of the gameplay, being the [[Spiritual Successor]] to [[Manhunt]]. One example is slamming a teddy's face into a spinning turntable.
* The old vector graphics game, ''[[Out of This World]]'' (aka ''Another World'') , is practically made out of this trope. Not only does everything on the planet want to kill him, it wants to kill him in the most gruesome way possible. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdq7sDvIuLo&feature=related Roll the clip!]
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